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New England Farmer — Tlie two first num- 

 bers of n new agricultural journal having the 

 above title have readied us from Boston. It is 

 published by J. Nourse, and edited by S. VV. 

 Cole, late editor of the "Boston Cultivator," and 

 author of the "American Veterinarian." The 

 papers are remarkably well gotten up, and us 

 well filled with agricultural matter. With Mr. 

 Cole's editorial qualifications we are well ac- 

 quainted, and think it would puzzle him to make 

 anything else, than a highly interesting, as well 

 as instructive work, of any journal under his 

 management. His journal contains sixteen pa- 

 ges super-royal octavo, is beautifully printed on 

 good paper, and is published at one dollar per 

 year. We sincerely wish him a full measure of 

 public patronage, and we will conclude by add- 

 ing, that should be receive all the merits, his 

 ambition, if it be not inordinate, will be satis- 

 fied. — American Fanner. 



The American Farmer speaks our own senti- 

 ments, with perhaps a better personal knowledge 

 of the practical talents of Mr. Cole, the edi- 

 tor. — Farmer's Monthly Visitor. 



The American Metropolitan Magazinf, 

 edited by Willam Lanoon, and composed of 

 contributions from the most eminent writers of 

 the country ; together with splendid engravings; 

 published by Israel Post, 259, Broadway New 

 York. ' 



We have received the January number of this 

 new and truly elegant monthly, contents entirely 

 original, and containing wine engravings from 

 original designs with a fine piece of music enti- 

 tled " Come haste away." " Miss Langston 

 shielding her father," and "Jacob Jones, or the 

 juvenile delinquent," are engravings in a partic- 

 ular manner worthy of notice. A new feature 

 iu this magazine will be a serial illustration of 

 the life of Washington, to be continued through 

 twelve numbers. The first of the series embel- 

 lishes this number. The text descriptive of 

 these engravings will be from the powerful pen 

 of J. T. Headlev, author of " Washington and 

 his Generals," &c, &c, making, when complet- 

 ed, the most beautiful illustrated life of the fa- 

 ther of his country ever given to the public. 



Terms, in advance, 63 a year — two copies for 

 $5 — five copies for SIO— eight copies for §15 — 

 twelve copies for $20. Address, (post-paid) Is- 

 rael Post, 259 Broadway, New York. 



Sartain's Union Magazine for February con- 

 tains eighty pages of letter press printing, two 

 beautiful mezzotinto engravings, " The First Ap- 

 peal," and "John the Baptist preaching," and a 

 beautiful colored Tulip, besides other illustra- 

 tions. Three celebrated European authors, Miss 

 Bremek and William and Mart Howitt, have 

 been engaged as contributors. This will add 

 much to the value of this excellent magazine. 



Mrs. Kirkland continues as one of the editors 

 in connection with John S. Hart, Esq. The 

 amount of talent engaged in this work cannot 

 fail to place it beyond competition. 



Price $3 per annum. Two copies, §5. John 

 Sartain &. Co., publishers, Philadelphia. 



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Grafting Gooseberries on the Currant. — 

 A writer iu the Genesee Farmer, says he avoids 

 the mildew, which so fatally affects the goose- 

 berry, by grafting on the Yellow Flowering Cur- 

 rant. He tried a variety which had been aban- 

 doned by reason of the mildew, and says he has 

 now a stock of that variety, eight leet in height, 

 which is yearly bending with its large crop of 



Reduction of Postage in France and Rus- 

 sia. — The French National Assembly has passed 

 a bill for the reduction of postage on all inland 

 letters to lour sous or four cents — the new regu- 

 lation to go into eflect on the 1 lib of January, 

 1849. The penny postage system has b^en es- 

 tablished throughout the vast empire of Russia. 

 Iu Great Britain this system works admirably, 

 and there can be no doubt that a reduction of 

 postage, and a uniform rate, in the United States, 

 would not only greatly increase the correspon- 

 dence passing through the Post-office, but would 

 also increase the revenue of the department. 



It is perhaps unfortunate for the progression 

 of mail facilities of the United States that the 

 Post Office Department itself has thrown in the 

 way obstacles to the reduction of the rates of 

 postage. Had there been a uniform rate of five 

 cents for letters and one cent for common sized 

 newspapers, the revenue to the Department as 

 an average for the last twenty years would have 

 exceeded that of the high rates which have pre- 

 vented the correspondence by mail to keep up 

 with other great improvements of the day. All 

 the arguments we have yet seen from any officer 

 of the Department in favor of a reduced postage 

 have been behind the times. The most profita- 

 ble railroads of the country are those which 

 have most reduced their price of fares. So the 

 reduced manimum rate of charge upon letters 

 and newspapers, until it shall approximate the 

 expense of transportation of burden weight, will 

 best support the Department, as it will best 

 spread intelligence, the light and life of liberty, 

 through the country which now extends as be- 

 tween the two great oceans of the globe. 



Sewing Machine. — Morey & Johnson have 

 invented a sewing machine, which is now suc- 

 cessfully employed in the different factories of 

 Lowell, and will sew two to four yards in a min- 

 ute, according to the size of the stitch, whether 

 fine or coarse. It is also used by many of the 

 factories of Boston, and many other places in 

 Connecticut. At New London there is one ma- 

 chine which sews thirty pair of pants a day, or, 

 does about half the entire sewing required to 

 make them complete. The machine of Messrs. 

 Morey & Johnson will sew forty bags per hour, 

 and contracts have been made for making them 

 by this machine at one and one-fourth cents per 

 piece. The sewing too is decidedly stronger 

 and more uniform than that which is done by 

 hand, and it will perform in the same space of 

 time about ten times the amount of work which 

 can be done in the usual way. The expense too 

 of making this machine is quite moderate and 

 agencies have already been sold to the Eastern 

 and our own States. An agent, Mr. E. P. Whit- 

 more, who has been appointed for the purpose, 

 for the Southern and Western States, is about 

 visiting the South, to dispose of thern in those 

 sections of our country. — Fanner and .Mechanic. 



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The St. Louis Daily Organ expresses the opin- 

 ion that slavery will, in twenty-five years, cense 

 to exist in the State of Missouri, and that, too, 

 without any agency of legislatures, or conven- 

 tions, of the people, but in the natural progress 

 of events. Among the chief elements in pro- 

 ducing this desirable result, is the large influx of 

 the German population, now amounting to near- 

 ly one hundred thousand, very few of whom 

 employ slave labor, and who are almost univer- 

 sally opposed to the system. 



How much better that slavery should be suf- 

 fered quietly to pass off as is the present evident 

 tendency of events, than to continue the agita- 

 tion where the subject can never enter for any 

 good practical effect, on the floor of either house 

 of Congress? 



Remedy for Asthma. — An individual who 

 has suffered much from asthma, and who had in 

 vain sought relief from regular physicians, wish- 

 es us to give publicity to the following remedy : 



"Procure common blotting paper, and tho- 

 roughly saturate it in a solution of nitre, (saltpe- 

 tre,) and let it be carefully dried by the fire, or 

 exposure to the rays of the sun. On retiring at 

 night, ignite it, and deposit it, burning, on a plate 

 or square of sheet zinc or iron iu your bedroom. 

 In many cases, it is said, this has enabled per- 

 sons painfully afflicted to enjoy their rest." — .lie. 

 Cultivator. 



Hundreds of nights, within the last five years, 

 when the bilter pain widened the time in pro- 

 portion as respiration became more difficult ; 

 hundreds of nights has the difficulty been less- 

 ened by a suspension of what seemed an inter- 

 minable agony in the smoke of burned nitre. As 

 a means averting present suffering, the editor of 

 the Visitor can recommend, from his own expe- 

 rience the use of saltpetre almost identically 

 prepared as above. Many times has he laid 

 down iu a smoke condensed seemingly to tho 

 smothering of a common healthy breather, and 

 found relief from the worst suffering. 



The Washington correspondent of the Charles- 

 ton Courier thus speaks of Col. Taliaferro, of 

 Virginia, now eighty years of age, and for forty 

 a member of Congress: 



" His health anil faculties have never, for a 

 moment given way, and he is the same man now 

 that he was when he was the confidential adviser 

 of Jefferson, Madison and Monroe — the same 

 man that be was when he opposed the admin- 

 istration of the elder Adams. Col. Taliaferro 

 has always lived liberally, and has enjoyed, as 

 much as any man that ever lived, social pleas- 

 ures, in all their approved forms. At a supper 

 parly the other night, he was asked what his se- 

 cret was. He replied thai he bad never known 

 disease — that he had never made hut one meal 

 a day — that if he took supper, he did not dine — 

 that he had risen early — bad always used exer- 

 cise, and never on horse-back when he could go 

 a foot; and that, under all circumstances, he had 

 preserved an equality of temper. His rule was 

 never to suffer that which was past to prey upon 

 bis mind — to enjoy what Providence sent him, 

 and to trust to the future." 



Qy For more than twenty years have we 

 known Col. Taliaferro (called Toltiver.) He was 

 among those active members of the House who 

 always, whether in session or not, had business 

 to do and was ever about his business. I!i= dist- 

 rict, being the Northern Neck between the river,* 

 Potomac and Rappahannock, and at no very 

 great distance from Washington, omitting to rV 

 turn him as a member in late years, he comet 

 frequently to the city on business. Hewaj ibei. 

 last winter, with the same unaltered face of ( 

 green old age, recognizing and readily greetiu 

 all his former acquaintance. 



' Surr-LY of Wool. — The editor of " Tl 

 Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil," has received 

 letter from the largest Woolen manufacturer 

 the United States, which states — '-that there is i» 

 annually raised in the Union wool enough by ' 

 million pounds to meet the demands of the manvji 

 hirer; and that he can point dot articl 

 made of wool now imported that will I 



QUIRE THIRTY MILLIONS OF POUNDS OF A MEDI 

 FINE QUALITY TO SUPPLY THE CONSUMPTION 



American Farmer. 



Arabian Calves.— The two calves procu 

 by Lieut. Lynch, in bis Dead !-'ea Expeolfj 

 and presented by him, through the Secretin 

 the Navy, to the Agriculturists of Virginia, « 

 brought to Richmond on Wednesday. Thej 

 rvt\. like most of the Devonshire breed, bull 

 taller and more slender. Their heads and li 

 remind one very much of the deer. 



